Nature inspires innovation. An international team of scientists has discovered how a brittle star can create material like tempered glass underwater. The findings may open new bio-inspired routes for ...

Major findings on the inner workings of a brittle star's ability to reversibly control the pliability of its tissues will help researchers solve the puzzle of mutable collagenous tissue (MCT) and ...

There are about 2,000 brittle star species in the world, with 57 known in Hawaii. Brittle stars run for cover when exposed. Unlike their plodding starfish cousins, which use suction-cup tube feet to ...

Major findings on the inner workings of a brittle star's ability to reversibly control the pliability of its tissues will help researchers solve the puzzle of mutable collagenous tissue (MCT) and ...

A new article presents 3-D images of the inside of live-bearing brittle stars, relatives of starfish. The high-resolution images allow the analysis of developing brittle star young, but also -- ...

Brittle stars have a bit more in common with starfish that giant, luminous balls of gas. These organisms look like starfish but with tentacles, and they’re dubbed “brittle” because they’re so delicate ...

Brittle stars are close relatives of starfish with a much more delicate appearance. “So if you imagine a starfish with really skinny, spiny arms, made up of lots of little articulated plates, that’s ...

Most of us are vaguely familiar with the brittle star -- the slender, five-armed cousin of the starfish. But perhaps you were not aware of how amazingly ubiquitous they are throughout all the oceans ...

Nature inspires innovation. An international team lead by researchers at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, together with ESRF -the European Synchrotron, Grenoble, France- scientists, have ...

A plethora of images from live-bearing brittle stars allows a 3-D look inside these unique starfish relatives and an insider's view of their soon-to-be offspring A plethora of images from live-bearing ...